Education
Over 1,369 faculty teach 604 medical students, 72 students in the physician assistant program, 137 students in the physical therapy program, and 337 graduate students.
Faculty also teach basic science classes to more than 5,000 undergraduate students from other University of Iowa colleges.
Profile of the 2024 entering class of medical students:
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153 students
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103 Iowa residents
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69 women (45.1%)
Match Day 2024 results:
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44% of the class chose primary care specialties
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30% will remain in Iowa for their first year of postgraduate training
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33 students will train in a program in UI Hospitals & Clinics
Research
41st in the nation and 19th among public institutions by 2023 U.S. News & World Report
$295 million in external funding for the research enterprise (FY2023)
45th in the nation by the National Institutes of Health (FY2022)
35+ research centers and institutes
12 faculty are members of the National Academy of Medicine (Three faculty are emeritus)
2 faculty members are Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators
2 faculty are members of the National Academies of Sciences
Clinical
316 faculty are listed in Best Doctors in America
243 outreach clinics serving 254 Iowa communities
50 percent of Iowa’s 5,000 practicing physicians received some or all of their medical education at University of Iowa.
Campus
11 buildings that total approximately 1,392,850 gross square feet (gsf) of space.
921,000 net square feet of space devoted to research, education, and administrative and event activities
The Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building provides a home for high-risk, high reward biomedical research and has added approximately 250,000 gsf of research space.
Rankings
In its 2025-2026 edition of “Best Medical Schools,” U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine in these categories:
- Physician Assistant: No. 1 (tie)
- Physical Therapy: No. 3
- Most Graduates Practicing in Rural Areas: No. 34
- Most Graduates Practicing in Health Professional Shortage Areas: No. 51
- Most Graduates Practicing in Primary Care: No. 112
- Primary Care: Tier 2
- Research: Tier 2